'Just think! And we all have collecting-boxes.' 'It is a missionary periodical,' said Marion.

'It has news in it from every corner of the mission-field, and every month a list of the stations that specially need our prayers.' Hyacinth left the Rectory that night with three well-read numbers of the _Gleaner_ in his pocket.
Afterwards he had many talks with Canon Beecher and the Quinns about the work of the missionary societies.

He learnt, to his surprise, that really immense sums of money were subscribed every year by members of the Church of Ireland for the conversion of the heathen in very remote parts of the world.

It could not be denied that these contributions represented genuine self-denial.

Young men went without a sufficiency of tobacco, and refrained from buying sorely-needed new tennis-racquets.
Ladies, with the smallest means at their command, reared marketable chickens, and sold their own marmalade and cakes.